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MAINE COW MOOSE, SHOWING BELL. 
The Bell of the Cow Moose. 
THE question of the bell on the cow moose has 
awakened much interest and not a little testimony 
is being brought forward. One or two Alaska 
hunters have advised us that they have never seen 
a cow moose without a bell. 
In the spring of 1900 a cow moose was taken in 
Maine in the vicinity of Houghton’s. In a time 
of deep snow she had trotted along the railroad 
track in front of a train, until, coming to a cul- 
vert, she was forced to jump down into the bed 
of the stream, and in jumping she was injured. 
Later she was captured and brought down to 
Merrymeeting Park, Brunswick, where she was 
found to be so badly injured that it was neces- 
sary to destroy her. A photograph of the animal 
taken at the time shows, as will be seen, a short 
bell. Mr. Stewart, the keeper of the Merrymeet- 
ing Park, where the moose was taken, was shown 
a photograph of the animal before it got there 
and at once pronounced the moose a bull, on ac- 
count of the bell. 
We have heard from a New Brunswick hunter 
that he has more than once seen cow moose with 
small bells, but this is merely his recollection. 
How Gulls Handle Clams. 
SALEM, Mass., March 20.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I was very much amused in a recent 
number with the account by one of your corre- 
spondents of the crow and mussel. I do not 
know that I have ever noticed the crows using 
that method of opening shells, but the gulls—of 
Annapolis Basin at all events—are at it con- 
stantly. At every low water the gulls all along 
the flats are seen to be busy dropping clams on 
the rocks. Every little while one who is on the 
watch can see a gull sail up into the air to a 
height of from twenty to fifty feet, remain sta- 
tionary, flapping his wings for a moment, and 
then settle gracefully down beside the broken 
shell and gobble up his clam. 
Any time with a glass or from behind a duck 
blind you may see how a gull gets the clam out 
of the shell, but how does‘he get the clam out of 
the mud? That is something that I have always 
been very anxious to know, and never yet have 
been able to find out. It must be done somehow, 
and very readily, too, as a wounded gull often 
throws up a large number of clams. One I shot 
threw up fourteen fresh clams, evidently secured 
within a very few hours, perhaps three. 
Have you or any of your readers ever seen 
gulls light in trees? In thirty odd years of close 
observation I saw them once, and only once, and 
then the black spruces on Goat Island were 
simply white with them. 
I hope that you or some of your readers may 
be able to enlighten me on some of these ques- 
tions. Tes View ECA: 
[There are certain timbered islands on the 
North Atlantic coast, where the gulls breed each 
year, and constantly ‘alight on trees. Away from 
these places it is our impression that they seldom 
or never alight on the trees. ] 
Home of Rest. 
COMMITTEE HEADQUARTERS, 512 F Street, N.W., 
Washington, D. C.—We beg leave to bring to 
your notice the proposed Home of Rest for the 
Horse and the Dog, and it has been suggested 
that we include other household pets; and in 
doing so we quote the American Horse Breeder, 
Boston, Mass.: “Near London, England, there 
is an unique institution, called the Home of Rest 
for the Horse. An annual New Year’s dinner is 
given to the inmates of the Home, consisting of 
apples, carrots, sugar, white and brown bread, 
and other dainties “agreeable to the equine taste. 
Many of the horses are in the Home for what 
time they may live, while some are put to work 
again as soon as they have recuperated sufh- 
ciently. The Duke of Portland is president of the 
Association. The annual banquet is usually do- 
nated by the lovers of the horse, who like to 
think of the old animals passing their declining 
days in comfort. A more humane ‘and laudable 
institution cannot be conceived. 
“We understand that there is a movement on 
foot in Kentucky to establish such a home for 
old and disabled horses, and we think the day is 
not far distant when every State will establish a 
home for horses that have passed their days of 
usefulness. Such homes are provided for help- 
less people where they receive every comfort. 
Why should not homes be established for man’s 
best friend and companion, the horse?” 
We are informed that there is a Home for the 
Doge and the Cat in or near Boston. Mass., and 
a Home for Cats in this city. We think it emi- 
nently right and proper that this country, which 
has emulated the mother country in so many 
ways, should do so in this respect in providing a 
Home of Rest, at or near the Nation’s Capital, 
for these noble. animals, which, from pioneer days 
to the present, have done so much, and are doing, 
to assist us in making this country what it is 
to-day. We believe the people of Washington 
and elsewhere who have so often responded lib- 
erally to humane objects, will earnestly espouse 
this cause. 
It is estimated that $15,000 will purchase suffi- 
cient ground with buildings for the nucleus of a 
successful home, and that this fund can be ob- 
tained by subscription or donation. When estab- 
lished, we think, that this home, by the aid of 
small annual dues of a large membership and 
produce from the farm can be made self-sus- 
taining. 
That it will be well to embrace Montgomery 
and Prince George’s counties, Md., and Alexan- 
dria and Fairfax counties, Va., with the District 
of Columbia, as the field to be brought withim 
the scope of the work to be performed by this. 

organization. We cordially invite your co-opera- 
tion. 
>—Mrs. Almeda Steele, Mrs. M. E. 
Gorham, Miss Maude Dewey, Miss Meriam E. 
Benjamin, Edward S. Schmidt, Dr. C. F. Had- 
field, Dr. L. Sherman Clews, John C. Lang, Chas. 
G. McCallion, Edwin A. Dement, Adolph Hohou- 
ser, H. A. Sands, Charles F. Auffort, R. B. B. 
Chew, Jr., John C. Yost. J. E. Feltner, Minor S. 
Webb, N. J. Payne, A. G. Shaw, H. J. Kintz, N. 
J. Beck. Secretaries, J. E. Feltner, J. N. Beck; 
Treasurer, R. B. B. Chew, Jr. 
What About the Coyote? 
BritisH CoLumBiA, Feb. 26.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Could anyone give me any information 
about how to trap or poison coyotes. I have 
some here that I am anxious to get even with. 
I have tried strychnine but they won’t look at it. 
They are so used to this kind of poison, as every- 
body puts some of it under their nose. Is there 
no different poison to strychnine that could be 
used? I want to get something that is entirely 
new to them. I guess they are pretty shy with a 
steel trap, though I suppose some are caught that 
way. I should be very thankful to anyone that 
could give me a few pointers on this question. If 
there has been any information on this subject 
in the pages of ForEST AND STREAM of the past 
I could not look them up, as I am a new sub- 
scriber to FoREST AND STREAM. Niewits 
[See ForEsT AND STREAM, July 8, 1905, ‘The 
Coyote Problem.” “Wolves and Wolf Nature,” in 
“Trail and Camp-fire,’ pp. 152-203; also “On the 
Little Missouri,’ same volume. | 
The Linnaean Society of New York. 
REGULAR meetings of the Society will be held 
in the Eastern Assembly Room, American Mu- 
seum of Natural History, Seventy-seventh street 
and Eighth avenue, on Tuesday evenings, April 
10 and 24, at 8:15 o'clock. 
April 10, William Dutcher, president of the 
National Association of Audubon Societies, will 
speak on “The Traffic in Foreign Game and Cage 
Birds,” illustrated by specimens. 
April 24 it is hoped that the Society will be 
addressed by George K. Cherrie, of the Brooklyn 
Institute of Arts and Sciences, on his experiences 
among South American birds. 
C. G. Assott, Sec’y. 
Ohio Blizzard and Quail. 
PLAINVILLE, O., March 16.—Blizzardy here last 
two days. Six inches of snow on the ground 
with glaze on top, the kind that kills the quails, 
gusts of snow, rain and sleet. 1 Od dak 
AtTLeBoRO, Mass.—I like the new 
much, although I did not think there was much 
chance for improvement. I have taken the For- 
EST AND STREAM ever since it was FoREST AND 
STREAM, and have every number to date, so you 
see I have been with it through all its changes, 
and it has grown better all the time. C. F. H. 
dress very 
